Designing case studies : explanatory approaches in small-n research

By Joachim Blatter, M. Haverland. 2012

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Revisiting the study of policy failures (2016, background): “Contemporary advances in causal process-tracing and fuzzy-set methodology allow for more explanatory rigour and stronger theory development than can be found in any of these examples (Blatter and Haverland 2012; Ragin 2008).”
Networks, ecosystems, fields, market systems? Making sense of the business environment (2020, background): “…promise in researching complex and systemic business environments: agent-based modeling (cf., North & Macal, 2007), causal process tracing (cf., Blatter & Haverland, 2012), action research (cf., Abrahamsen, Henneberg, Huemer, & Naudé, 2016; Lewin, 1946), fuzzy-set qualitative comparative…”
The Myth of Market Neutrality: A Comparative Study of the European Central Bank’s and the Swiss National Bank’s Corporate Security Purchases (2019, background): “Because the SNB and ECB are two very different central banks, comparing their programmes helps us to identify striking similarities in their depoliticisation strategies (Blatter and Haverland 2012).”